http://iseries.blogs.techtarget.com A Search400.com blog Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:58:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Like a cross between The Onion and Search400, Mid-Deranged is a satirical humor site about the IBM midrange. So it's imperative that you not take it seriously when the site proclaims that IBM has announced it is buying Nintendo and merging Power Systems with the Wii to create the IBMii. It's ... http://iseries.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/06/26/a-new-site-thats-a-little-mid-deranged/ On the one hand we hear that it is increasingly difficult to find a job working on a 20-year-old system. But we also hear that companies are looking to modernize their legacy systems and move away from RPG in favor of a programming language that the new college graduates are ... http://iseries.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/06/25/as400-jobs-are-you-looking-for-work/ This year, as many of you know, is the 20th anniversary of the introduction of AS/400. This weekend IBM held a big celebration at its campus up in Rochester, Minn. in celebration of the anniversary. But 20 years ago, not everyone was celebrating. When System/36 and System/38 merged to become the ... http://iseries.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/06/23/history-repeating-itself-a-look-at-the-20th-anniversary-of-as400/ Over a year after IBM's new Enterprise Generation Language (EGL) was launched, and following IBM's own iSeries EGL tutorial publication, the EGL Cafe has opened. The site launch occurred after IBM's Rational Software Developer Conference (RSDC) last week in Orlando, Fla. New to the blogosphere (but not to i), Joe Pluta ... http://iseries.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/06/12/egl-cafe-open-are-you-ready-for-a-new-language/ Kind of an old post, but I missed it and so I need to link to it here. It comes from Aaron Bartell and includes the following joke: The boy Microsoft programmer is smoking and leaving smoke rings into the air. The girl AS/400 programmer gets irritated with the smoke and says ... http://iseries.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/06/12/more-humor-system-i-programmers-worried-about-second-hand-smoke/ In the go-ahead-and-smile category, the iDevelop blog came up with a bunch more acronyms beyond YiP (Young i Professionals) and now RiP (Retired i Professionals) to describe various factions of the i community. Here are a couple: MiPs-–Modern i Professionals-–those who like to stay up with technology and the latest in ... http://iseries.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/06/12/yips-and-blips-and-frips-oh-my/ There have been plenty of arguments for and against putting System i on a blade server. Proponents say that being able to have their i, p and x86 servers all in one BladeCenter chassis is a big selling point. Detractors worry that I/O performance won't be the same on a ... http://iseries.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/06/12/system-i-blades-not-selling-yet-it-seems/ Necessity is the mother of invention. And so, many System i shops will find themselves inventing new applications to perform necessary business functions. This practice is not limited to end-users, but includes vendors using the AS400 to develop applications and provide support for businesses running i. First Option Inc. is ... http://iseries.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/06/05/necessity-leads-to-iseries-watchdog-development/ With the recent comments in response to the recent blog post concerning the H-1B visas, I began to wonder what the System i job market really looks like. Many shared that it's hard to get a good-paying job in this market. For comparison, as an editor, the market I compete in ... http://iseries.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/23/pay-for-system-i-admins/ A few years ago, Salesforce.com came out with a product called AppExchange that allowed independent software vendors to host their applications on Salesforce.com for customers to use. It's the software as a service (SaaS) approach that there is a lot of talk -- and some think a lot of hype ... http://iseries.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/14/saas-on-system-i/